> From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:55 PM
> To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon
> 
> Hello:
>       I'm removing red dots on the north coast of Nova Scotia at the
> moment with canvec data. The canvec data has a bunch of polygons for the
> coastline.
> 
>       Is there any strong arguments which is better either
> 
>       natural = coastline vs polygon of water?
> 
>       Coastline = updates slowly, but smaller ways
>       water = updates faster but larger and less intuitive .
> 
>       Andrew

The data in Nova Scotia in OSM is broken. Someone imported large natural=water 
polygons on the coast over existing data. I fixed about half of the imports and 
haven't had time to get back to the rest. The coastline should *not* be mapped 
with natural=water.


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